Where has Jule Miller gone?

I remember, as a kid, watching the Jule Miller film strips. For many folks, born and raised in the CofC, those films are iconic. I know those things are still around, having been transferred to a DVD format. I'm pretty sure Steve Miller (no relation to Jule) continues to use them in a limited manner for one on one teaching.

For those who have no idea of what I am talking about---

The Jule Miller film strips were for a number of years a popular resource for evangelistic teaching in CofC's. They were designed to convey fundamental concepts important for an understanding of the Bible's teachings regarding salvation. They could be used in church settings or taken to homes for more personal study.

In current times, Jule Miller's most famous work is no longer in vogue. It seems the whole conversation about dispensations has gone out of style. The main concept I recall from the films is the teaching of dispensations. Miller, reflecting conventional thinking within our brotherhood, taught that the Biblical revelation should be divided into 3 dispensations: Patriachal, Mosiac (or Jewish), and Christian.

Here's the short version:

Each dispensation signified a different covenantal arrangement between God and mankind. We are living in the Christian Age, which is articulated in the Bible in the books of Acts-Jude (heavy emphasis on Acts).

How long has it been since we have engaged in a good discussion of dispensations? Are you interested?

You might think I'm just chasing theological rabbits and that such a discussion has no significant bearing on anything important. However, a closer look will reveal that the notion of progressive revelation (dispensations) undergirds a whole lot of what makes us who we are.

Something Fun to Watch

Ok. One of my friends, from THE message board, put together this video of himself telling about his meeting with the president. He's quite a character. Make sure you watch all the way to the end where he's added some bloopers. Just a fun show to watch!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEcaqQKSoW4


Jennifer

Scientology

A friend of mine found this and posted it on a message board. I thought I would post it here for you all to see and comment on.


Cruise 'is Christ' of Scientology
By EMILY SMITH
US Editor
January 23, 2007

TOM Cruise is the new “Christ” of Scientology, according to leaders of the cult-like religion.

The Mission: Impossible star has been told he has been “chosen” to spread the word of his faith throughout the world.

And leader David Miscavige believes that in future, Cruise, 44, will be worshipped like Jesus for his work to raise awareness of the religion.

A source close to the actor, who has risen to one of the church’s top levels, said: “Tom has been told he is Scientology’s Christ-like figure.

“Like Christ, he’s been criticised for his views. But future generations will realise he was right.”

Cruise joined the Church of Scientology in the ’80s. Leader L Ron Hubbard claimed humans bear traces of an ancient alien civilisation.

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A different friend of mine, in reply to the above posting, found this information and posted it on the message board for us to be able to see what the belief's are and such.

What Scientologists Believe
Central tenets of this faith

Belief in Deity
Scientology considers the belief in a God or gods as something personal and therefore offers no specific dogma. The nature of the Supreme Being is revealed personally through each individual as s/he becomes more conscious and spiritually aware. There exists a life energy or force (Theta) beyond and within all.

Incarnations
There are no particular human incarnations of God, as the universal life force (Theta) is inherent in all. All humans are immortal spiritual beings (thetans) capable of realizing a nearly godlike state through Scientology practices.

Origin of Universe and Life
All is manifestation of the universal spirit, which is all that actually exists.

After Death
Rebirths continue until one consciously confronts all pre-birth, current-life, and previous-life traumas and realizes one's true nature as a "thetan," immortal spirit--transcending matter, energy, space, and time. Achieving this state enables the spirit to escape the cycle of birth and death--to operate independently of the physical universe and become one with God.

Why Evil?
Painful experiences and harmful acts in one's prebirth, current, and past lives become imprinted in the reactive mind and lead to irrational behavior. Departures from rational thought and untrue ideas ("aberrations") can result in wrongdoing.

Salvation
Salvation is achieved through the practices and techniques of Scientology, the ultimate goal of which is to realize one's true nature as an immortal spirit, a thetan. The path to salvation, or enlightenment, includes achieving states of increasingly greater mental awareness--Pre-Clear, Clear, and ultimately Operating Thetan. An Operating Thetan is a spirit who can control matter, energy, space, time, thought, and life. Practitioners ("Auditors") are regarded as ministers and counselors who assist others to achieve self-enlightenment. Auditors help others to identify their prebirth, current, and past-life disturbances, which are obstacles to happiness and spiritual enlightenment.

Undeserved Suffering
Suffering occurs as part of the spirit's entrapment here in the physical universe. Only when the individual is aware of his spiritual nature can he identify his barriers within the universe and overcome them, rising out of a lower state and into a higher state of happiness and freedom.

Contemporary Issues
Based on the belief that you cannot free yourself spiritually without working to free others, Scientology has founded and supports many organizations for social betterment, particularly in the areas of drug abuse, crime, psychiatric abuse, government abuse of law, human rights, religious freedom, education, and morality. Scientology strongly favors the use of their methodology for spiritual/mental healing over the use of conventional treatment.

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Of course, many of you know what message board I'm referring to (www.davidphelps.com). We have some very interesting discussions about EVERYTHING. I have really enjoyed some of the comments on what this particular issue has brought about. Here are a few of them....

"What an odd article! Is that how Tom feels about himself? If so, I wonder if he'd be willing to hang on a cross? I mean, really now, is he willing to die so that his worshipers will be cleansed of their sins? If not, then they need to find another name to call who they worship because the Christ I know and love died for my sins. "----Lynne

"My husband reads about Scientology a lot, and basically what he has told me, the only reason that Mr. Cruise is a big deal in this so called "religion" is by spending money. You have to spend a lot of money to take the classes to become higher in this religeon. Obviously Mr. Cruise is crazy enough to spend money on this absurd crap. Scientology is the dumbest thing I have ever heard of. There is really no point. It is a huge huge source of frustration for me."----Christina

"I think I just might hurl"----Bethany


There are alot more comments, but I wanted to just touch on a few of my favorites. ;)

What are your comments?

From A While Back....

Julie Andrews turns 69

To commemorate her 69th birthday on October 1, actress/vocalist, Julie Andrews made a special appearance at Manhattan's Radio City Music Hall for the benefit of the AARP. One of the musical numbers she performed was "My Favorite Things" from the legendary movie "Sound Of Music". Here are the lyrics she used:


Maalox and nose drops and needles for knitting,
Walkers and handrails and new dental fittings,
Bundles of magazines tied up in string,
These are a few of my favorite things.

Cadillacs and cataracts ,and hearing aids and glasses,
Polident and Fixodent and false teeth in glasses,
Pacemakers, golf carts and porches with swings,
These are a few of my favorite things.

When the pipes leak,
When the bones creak,
When the knees go bad,
I simply remember my favorite things,
And then I don't feel so bad.

Hot tea and crumpets and corn pads for bunions,
No spicy hot food or food cooked with onions,
Bathrobes and heating pads and hot meals they bring,
These are a few of my favorite things.

Back pains, confused brains, and no need for sinnin',
Thin bones and fractures and hair that is thinnin',
And we won't mention our short shrunken frames,
When we remember our favorite things.

When the joints ache,
When the hips break,
When the eyes grow dim,
Then I remember the great life I've had,
And then I don't feel so bad.

(Ms. Andrews received a standing ovation from the crowd that lasted over four minutes and repeated encores.)

Herman - who?

One more post on hermeneutics and I'll let it go...for awhile, anyway.

During the Civil War, Christians on both sides of the Mason-Dixon line quoted Scripture in defense of their position on slavery. Southern Christians noted Paul's frequent references to slaves and masters without every explicitly condemning slavery as an institution (Philemon was a southern favorite). Simultaneously in the North, Christians quoted various passages to support their position that slavery was the antithesis of everything Jesus Christ represents.

Today, John Hagee of Cornerstone Church, San Antonio, TX, will explain how current events in the Middle East are not only the fulfillment of biblical prophecies, but signal the impending consummation of the physical nation of Israel.

The explanation of why Christians can sincerely draw totally opposite conclusions from the same texts is found in an appreciation of the differing hermeneutical presuppostions each side bring to the text. Why to people flock to hear John Hagee preach things that sound ridiculous to you and me? Again, an understanding of the hermeneutical underpinnings of Hagee's reading of Scripture will explain. I did not say hermeneutics justifies different readings of Scripture--I am simply stating that it explains.

My dad used to joke with me while I was studying therapy. He would say something to the effect--however much your client is different from me, that is the indicator of how normal or abnormal they are. Dad was joking, but we all feel this way to some extent. We naturally assume they we are normal and those that differ from us are abnormal.

I study Stone-Campbell history to understand what are my hermeneutical assumptions. I recognize that long before I ever read the first word of Scripture, much of the framework for how I would interpret Scripture was already in place. Simply put, I want to understand myself.

The fact is--no one is normal. The CofC is not the essence of all God has been doing since before the foundation of the earth. We, as individuals and as a brotherhood, are a combination of strengths and weaknesses. Others, also, are a combination of strengths and weaknesses.

God's Word is the one true guide and standard for living. An appeal for a greater appreciation of biblical interpretation is not a diversion from the Bible. It is quite the opposite. It is a call to see Scripture on its own terms, factoring out as much of our own noise as is possible.

Come On, It's Time To Switch

I really feel it's time for Sunshine to endure some change on this blog and switch over to the newer blogger. It's really so much better and very easy. I know I posted about this before and I know there has been a ton of work and hours put into fixing the Sunshine blog up to be what it is today, but it's time to update. I have now updated all of my blogs and I'm not one bit sorry for doing so. I love it!

If I have read correctly, Jason (being the original owner of this blog) will need to be the one to do the switching. I can help you with this Jason. It's very quick and very, very simple.

Come on! Let's do it! ;)

Jennifer

Where's Bill Gnade?

I havn't heard from Mr. Gnade in months on this website and wondered if he still came around here to read. Where are you, Bill?

Jennifer
(aka Zoe's Mom)

Joke # 2

The minister was preoccupied with thoughts of how he was going to ask the congregation to come up with more money than they were expecting for repairs to the church building. Therefore, he was annoyed to find that the regular organist was sick and a substitute had been brought in at the last minute.

The substitute wanted to know what to play. "Here's a copy of the service," he said impatiently. "But, you'll have to think of something to play after I make the announcement about the finances."

During the service, the minister paused and said, "Brothers and Sisters, we are in great difficulty; the roof repairs cost twice as much as we expected and we need $4,000 more. Any of you who can pledge $100 or more, please stand up."

At that moment, the substitute organist played "The Star Spangled Banner."

And that is how the substitute became the regular organist!

Sex and the church

I feel that sex is a subject that needs to be addressed by the church when sin is involved. Sex is not a sin unless it is used outside of marriage between one man and one woman.

Sex with pictures or videos (pornography/adultery) = sin.
Even thinking about performing sexual acts while looking at someone in person (adultery) = sin.
Sex with someone other than who you are married to (adultery) = sin.
Sex with your children or someone else's (molestation) = sin.
Sex with someone who is of the same sex as you (homosexuality) = sin.
Sex with animals (bestiality/sodomy) = sin.
Sex being forced on another person in marriage or not (rape) = sin.

Unfortunately, I'm sure there are many other ways of going about sex as God did NOT intend. These are the ones that came to my mind first.


Ok. This is a list of situations involving sex that should be discussed amoung the church. It should be obvious to all of us what goes on behind closed doors between one man and one woman that are joined in marriage to one another. I doubt God had to explain "the birds and the bees" to Adam when he saw Eve the first time. I don't know. Maybe He did. I havn't read about it in the bible.

My question is: Why, if at all, should the church be talking about sex unless it involves sin and how to remove yourself from it?

STOP! THIEF!

Stop! Thief! An elderly woman had just returned to her home from an evening of church services when she was startled by an intruder. She caught the man in the act of robbing her home of its valuables and yelled, "Stop! Acts 2:38!"

(Repent and be baptized, in the name of Jesus Christ so that your sins may be forgiven.)

The burglar stopped in his tracks. The woman calmly called the police and explained what she had done.

As the officer cuffed the man to take him in, he asked the burglar, "Why did you just stand there? All the old lady did was yell a scripture to you."

"Scripture?" replied the burglar. "I thought she said she had an ax and two 38's!"

The Type of Person God Uses

By Dr. David Webster

Why did God choose Noah when he wanted to start over with the human race?

The eyes of the LORD search the whole earth in order to strengthen those whose hearts are fully committed to him. - 2 Chronicles 16:9

Let's take a look at what God looked for in Noah and what He looks for in you today!



God uses people who are available

So the LORD was sorry he had ever made mankind. It broke his heart... But Noah found favor with the LORD. - Genesis 6:6,8

God uses people who dare to be different

Noah was a righteous man, the only blameless man living on earth at the time. He consistently followed God's will and enjoyed a close relationship with him. - Genesis 6:9

God uses people who follow him completely

So Noah did everything exactly as God had commanded him. - Genesis 6:22

God uses people who never give up!

Also take with you every kind of food that is eaten, and store it up; and it shall serve as food for you and for them." - Genesis 6:21 NRSV Can you imagine how much of a task it must have been for Noah to gather every kind of food that is eaten? Noah still didn't give up though!

The challenge:

Get down on your knees in prayer about one or two of these four steps that you haven't been true to in your life. God can do many things through ordinary you if you allow him to and make yourself into the type of person that God uses.

Life to the fullest

There is a recurring theme in my thinking about the many choices life presents. I can best express it with a parable of sorts:

A very hungry man enters a large cafeteria. The cafeteria is filled with many foods of numerous varieties. The man has limited resources, but enough to purchase a good meal for himself. He greatly desires to make the most of his funds, so he is anxious about making the right choices. He has a big problem. He is unfamiliar with all the foods he sees. To his eye, some foods look better than others, but he is in no way sure of what to choose. There is no opportunity to taste before he pays. The man needs a guide, someone who identifies with his dilemma and knows the food. One who would advise him with regards to the choices he must make.

Just as the man in this story, I carry with me a significant portion of anxiety. I struggle with decision-making. The hardest time of my life was the period approaching high school graduation. I felt overwhelmed by the magnitude and consequences of the choices before me.

I am inspired by people who began with little, yet accomplish much. I admire people who have the courage to take great chances in an effort to reach high goals. I, too easily, relate to a particular character in one of Jesus' parables. The man who took the one talent given him and went and buried it. He was afraid of loss. He was focused on what he might lose of his master's, rather than what he might gain for the master. I know that feeling--I am that guy.

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I want to live by faith. I want to be at peace- all the time, knowing that my thinking is saturated with godly wisdom. I want to be at peace, knowing that the odds are with me, in that God is guarding my back. There will be pain and suffering. I want mine to serve some purpose, to accomplish some greater good. I want to be confident that my life is running exactly along the lines God intended when He knit me in my mother's womb.

The disciple of Christ is not simply an obedient rule-follower. The disciple should be different from all other people. It seems that knowing God should give us an edge, an inside track to unlocking our own potential (or having it unlocked for us). This difference should bare-out not just in matters such as church attendance and communion observance; but even more so in the pragmatic matters of life- in matters of finance, time, and planning.

We ought to be the bravest of people, for we already know that all things are going to end well. We should be living life to the fullest. That is what Jesus said He came to give us.

I believe my earlier post and comments about eroticism are consistent with this quest. Anxiety is closely linked to much of human limitation. To defeat anxiety's hold on us in one area of life is to make great strides towards its defeat in other areas as well. And conversely, to cower from anxiety in one area of life is to weaken one's position in others areas.

By God's grace, may we all live life to its fullest.

The Touch of God

by Max Lucado

In Scripture the leper is symbolic of the ultimate outcast: infected by a condition he did not seek, rejected by those he knew, avoided by people he did not know, condemned to a future he could not bear. And in the memory of each outcast must have been the day he was forced to face the truth: life would never be the same. The banishing of a leper seems harsh, unnecessary. The Ancient East hasn’t been the only culture to isolate their wounded, however. We may not build colonies or cover our mouths in their presence, but we certainly build walls and duck our eyes. And a person needn’t have leprosy to feel quarantined. The divorced know this feeling. So do the handicapped. The unemployed have felt it, as have the less educated. Some shun unmarried moms. We keep our distance from the depressed and avoid the terminally ill. We have neighborhoods for immigrants, convalescent homes for the elderly, schools for the simple, centers for the addicted, and prisons for the criminals. The rest simply try to get away from it all. Only God knows how many individuals are living quiet, lonely lives infected by their fear of rejection and their memories of the last time they tried. They choose not to be touched at all rather than risk being hurt again. Some of you have the master touch of the Physician himself. You use your hands to pray over the sick and minister to the weak. If you aren’t touching them personally, your hands are writing letters, dialing phones, baking pies. You have learned the power of a touch. But others of us tend to forget. Our hearts are good; it’s just that our memories are bad. We forget how significant one touch can be. We fear saying the wrong thing or using the wrong tone or acting the wrong way. So rather than do it incorrectly, we do nothing at all. Aren’t we glad Jesus didn’t make the same mistake? If your fear of doing the wrong thing prevents you from doing anything, keep in mind the perspective of the lepers of the world. They aren’t picky. They aren’t finicky. They’re just lonely. They are yearning for a godly touch. Jesus touched the untouchables of the world. Will you do the same?

Are you in touch with your eroticism?

Last evening in our Bible class, Jamie led a discussion about the book, Song of Solomon. Various comments were made about the church's avoidance of the subject of sexuality, especially eroticism, and how such avoidance has negatively effected church members.

It is so much easier to be critical than it is to be creative. It is not difficult to find fault or weakness in something already in existence, whether that be a person, a plan, or paradigm. It is much more difficult to create a solution to a problem. For instance, it takes far less political brain power to note problems with our president's approach to Iraq than it does to generate a new plan that will work effectively.

Sexuality is the same. We, christians, spend much time criticizing the pitfalls and problems of our cultures treatment of sex (and justifiably so). But we have too little to say about what a man and a woman is to rightly do with sex. We have far too little to say about eroticism. Erotic forces are very powerful within us. Great power can be wielded for good or bad.

We need to admit that we have taken the easier road, having been far more critical than creative. We also need to begin the process of stepping up to the great challenge of addressing sexuality and eroticism in positive, affirmative language. We need to offer a vision of good sexuality, eroticism that is not denied but rather fully experienced in the manner God intended.

This subject produces anxiety for most poeple. Such anxiety is like jumping into the cool water of a pool. It will sting for a moment, but quickly we adjust and swim in comfort. We can deal with the anxiety of sexuality. The value of such an effort will be quickly realized, not only in our own lives but also in the lives of our children.

What are your thoughts?

Worship Time Change

Our congregation has just instituted a time change in worship services on Sundays. In the morning service we meet from 10-11:30 for worship only and then have Bible Study Classes on Sunday evenings. I was just wondering what the response is to the change in the worship services. Personally I like the new arrangement of having more time for worship in the morning and getting done a little earlier and everyone of all ages having something interesting to do in the evening hour. Also do you have any ideas to enhance our worship time?

A beautiful flower in a broken pot--(true story)

Our house was directly across the street from the clinic entrance of Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. We lived downstairs and rented the upstairs rooms to outpatients at the clinic. One summer evening as I was fixing supper, there was a knock at the door. I opened it to see a truly awful looking man. "Why, he's hardly taller than my eight-year-old," I thought as I stared at the stooped, shriveled body. But the appalling thing was his face, lopsided from swelling, red and raw. Yet his voice was pleasant as he said, "Good evening. I've come to see if you've a room for just one night. I came for a treatment this morning from the eastern shore, and there's no bus 'til morning." He told me he'd been hunting for a room since noon but with no success, no one seemed to have a room. "I guess it's my face. I know it looks terrible, but my doctor says with a few more treatments..." For a moment I hesitated, but his next words convinced me: "I could sleep in this rocking chair on the porch. My bus leaves early in the morning." I told him we would find him a bed, but to rest on the porch. I went inside and finished getting supper. When we were ready, I asked the old man if he would join us. "No thank you. I have plenty." And he held up a brown paper bag.

When I had finished the dishes, I went out on the porch to talk with him a few minutes. It didn't take a long time to see that this old man had an oversized heart crowded into that tiny body. He told me he fished for a living to support his daughter, her five children, and her husband, who was hopelessly crippled from a back injury. He didn't tell it by way of complaint; in fact, every other sentence was preface with a thanks to God for a blessing. He was grateful that no pain accompanied his disease, which was apparently a form of skin cancer. He thanked God for giving him the strength to keep going. At bedtime, we put a camp cot in the children's room for him.

When I got up in the morning, the bed linens were neatly folded and the little man was out on the porch. He refused breakfast, but just before he left for his bus, haltingly, as if asking a great favor, he said, "Could I please come back and stay the next time I have a treatment? I won't put you out a bit. I can sleep fine in a chair." He paused a moment and then added, "Your children made me feel at home. Grownups are bothered by my face, but children don't seem to mind." I told him he was welcome to come again. And on his next trip, he arrived a little after seven in the morning. As a gift, he brought a big fish and a quart of the largest oysters I had ever seen. He said he had shucked them that morning before he left so that they'd be nice and fresh. I knew his bus left at 4:00 a.m. and I wondered what time he had to get up in order to do this for us.

In the years he came to stay overnight with us, there was never a time that he did not bring us fish or oysters or vegetables from his garden. Other times we received packages in the mail, always by special delivery; fish and oysters packed in a box of fresh young spinach or kale, every leaf carefully washed. Knowing that he must walk three miles to mail these, and knowing how little money he had made the gifts doubly precious. When I received these little remembrances, I often thought of a comment our next-door neighbor made after he left that first morning. "Did you keep that awful looking man last night? I turned him away! You can lose roomers by putting up such people!" Maybe we did lose roomers once or twice. But if only they could have known him, perhaps their illnesses would have been easier to bear. I know our family always will be grateful to have known him; from him, we learned what it was to accept the bad without complaint and the good with gratitude to God.

Recently I was visiting a friend who has a greenhouse. As she showed me her flowers, we came to the most beautiful one of all, a golden chrysanthemum, bursting with blooms. But to my great surprise, it was growing in an old dented, rusty bucket. I thought to myself, "If this were my plant, I'd put it in the loveliest container I had!" My friend changed my mind. "I ran short of pots," she explained, "and knowing how beautiful this one would be, I thought it wouldn't mind starting out in this old pail. It's just for a little while, till I can put it out in the garden." She must have wondered why I laughed so delightedly, but I was imagining just such a scene in heaven.

"Here's an especially beautiful one," God might have said when he came to the soul of the sweet old fisherman. "He won't mind starting in this small body." All this happened long ago--and now, in God's garden, how tall this lovely soul must stand.

"The LORD does not look at the things man looks at. Man looks at the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart." (1 Samuel 16:7b)

-- Author Unknown

Audience to Army

This morning, as a part of a small study/prayer group, I was again looking at Rick Warren's book, The Purpose-Driven Church. I occurred to me that this book is ultimately about a discipline, a church-leader discipline. The book challenges the church leader to adopt the five purposes, then order every aspect of the congregation's life around them, from the largest goals to the smallest details. The initial impetus of the book is easily appreciated--it is easy to get excited about a purpose-driven church as opposed to a tradition-driven or budget-driven church. Church-leaders easily maintain enthusiasm while striving for an effective and pointed mission statement. But it seems that somewhere after the construction of a mission statement excitement quickly evaporates and is replaced by boredom. Because now we are down to bedrock of sheer discipline. Every program, ministry, decision needs to be filtered through the five purposes as focused by the mission statement. This gets tedious and demands dedication to the discipline. It is not just a dedication to the purposes of the church as the Bible teaches, but a secondary dedication the discipline of organizing a congregation around said purposes.

Discipline is painful. This past year I have yet again been confronted by my own inability to achieve discipline. I have come to see a strong link between faith and discipline in my personal struggle to grow in Christ. I have painfully recognized that my maturity is not reflected by the loftiness of the thoughts that run through my mind, but rather by the quality of the discipline that characterizes my day-to-day existence. That is why I am ranting so much about time and money. The function of time and money in my life provide a clear window into my soul (especially time). My inability to master my time, finding a way to do the things I have purposed to do, demonstrate vividly my weakness and degree of hypocrisy.

A goal of mine for the coming year is to focus less on the superficial aspects of walking with Christ and strive intently for godly discipline, a discipline that reveals a true transformation has occurred in my life. Of course, this can only happen by the gracious power of God at work in me.

Rick Warren states that the goal of a purpose-driven church is to turn the audience into an army. The image of an army implies that you and I are soldiers, that we are in a war, and within that war we have a mission. All of this requires discipline.

Check out the quote from N.T. Wright on PreacherMike.

2007 Junior Devo schedule

Ah, the Christmas season is over....sadly. I love Christmas and everything it stands for is precious to me.....celebrating the most wonderful birthday of Jesus, giving gifts to loved ones, spending time with family...everything.

Back to my point, I have a list of Junior Devo dates that I would like everyone to consider. We really need host homes. You are welcome to do the short, 10 minute max, devo or let me know and I can do one. All devo times are from 6:30pm to 8pm, unless you need something different...we are flexible. As far as food, think easy! These kids will eat about anything. It does not need to be anything time consuming or complicated or expensive.

The dates are as follows:
Jan 4th---if someone can do it that soon. (talk to me at church or call me at home and we can announce it Wednesday evening)
Jan 18th
Feb 1st
Feb 15th
March 1st
March 15th
March 29th
April 12th
April 26th
May 10th
May 24th (last devo before the end of the school year)
June 7th
June 21st
July 5th
July 19th
August 2nd
August 16th
August 30th (first devo back to school)
Sept. 13th
Sept. 27th
Oct. 11th
Oct. 25th
Nov. 8th
Nov. 22nd---No Devo (Thanksgiving Day)
Dec. 6th
Dec. 20th

I will also put up a sign up sheet in the foyer window.

Thank you so much to all the families that have allowed us into your homes in 2006. Keep up the great job in 2007. These are the future men and women of Sunshine! Again, you don't have to have a child IN the Junior Youth Group to HOST a devo.